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Coffee House Shots

Will the Tory right be happy with Sunak's reshuffle?

Coffee House Shots

The Spectator

Politics, Daily News, News

4.42.2K Ratings

🗓️ 13 November 2023

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Rishi Sunak has spent today selecting new people for his Cabinet. With MP's to the right such as Suella Braverman removed from office, has Rishi Sunak's bold reshuffle made deeper divides in his party?

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Hello and welcome to coffee house shots,

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the Spectators Daily Politics Podcast. I'm Natasha Rose and I'm joined by

0:24.6

Katie Balls and Fraser Nelson. It's been Ritchie Sunak's first major

0:28.8

reshuffle and it's safe to say it's been quite a dramatic one. Katie has it finished yet is it still going?

0:34.7

We're still in the process in the sense this is a wide reshuffles so we've had obviously

0:40.7

the morning as we discussed on the first podcast the headline

0:43.6

announcements of Sue out of Braverman sacked David Caben brought in James

0:48.0

cleverly the new Home Secretary and we've now had most of the cabinet appointments but we're still going to be getting junior ranks going through in that sense.

0:57.0

I think in terms of probably the most headline-grabbing news,

1:01.0

it does go back to how the day began. I think it's quite

1:03.8

competed with that, but you do have a few cabinet departures. Terres coffee, she

1:08.8

has left the cabinet. Steve Barkley has been demoted from Health Secretary to Environment Secretary.

1:15.0

And then you have Richard's attempts to refresh his cabinet with new faces even though he has quite an old face in it now in David Cameron so Victoria Atkins is the new

1:24.8

health secretary 2017 intake and then Laura Trot is the chief secretary of the

1:29.7

Treasury 2019 intake a former advisor to David Cameron, so a theme there, and then Richard Holden

1:36.5

is ultimately in a new role too as party chairman.

1:41.4

And Fraser, in terms of the style of this reshuffle this

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